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Surrendering of passport from birth country

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Harsh_77 Mentor

Harsh_77   718

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Best answer would be check with your birth country’s consulate.

They should tell you how to surrender your passport, from what I have heard some country’s consulate have representative at the oath ceremony to collect the passport, some don’t.

Various countries have various rules and regulation on surrendering the passport, US does not care if you surrender, tear it, rip it or burn your old passport.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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At what point must a naturalized US citizen surrender his/her birth country (or current citizenship) passport (assuming not planning for Dual Citizenship)? At the US Naturalization Oath ceremony in the Court? Please advise. Thanks!

Dude,

Uncle Sam has nothing to do with Ukrainian politics. You'll need to surrender your Ukrainian passport to the Ukrainian Embassy or Consulate General closest to you, formally. The Ukrainian secret police is not attending US naturalization ceremonies to collect passports, and Uncle Sam's soldiers will not risk getting a jail sentence for confiscating something that belongs to a foreign government.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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NickD   203

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Would have loved it if my wife could surrender her foreign passport, but with calls both to our Department of State, and to her consulate, she had to maintain her foreign passport to visit her mom. And even states so in the DOS web site for her country. Matter of fact, they have over 200 sets of rules for each of the different 200 countries, can only wonder who makes these rules. But I have never heard of anyone having to surrender a foreign passport to any US agency, if required, is the property of your home country.

As far as I know, can just set it in a drawer someplace and forget about it. Wifes' US passport is good for any country, except entering and leaving her home country, there she needs a valid passport for her home country, so has to carry two. But just for that country. You definitely are required to have a US passport to leave or enter the USA.

 
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